When inflationary pressures or asset bubbles begin to threaten social stability, the CCP leaders with large regional factions "generalists" temporarily hand monetary policy control over to cadres with narrower support centered in government ministries -- "technocrats," to borrow Shih's terminology.

Education will have to be broad and general because business today is looking for "generalists" as well as technicians and specialists, and our engineers and scientists are going to need a more general foundation in language and other subjects with which the Council is concerned.